In our first class, the teacher mentioned Peter M. Senge's book The Fifth Discipline, as well as the idea of context. Here is an excerpt from Senge's book (pdf) that will give you the gist of what he is saying.
Inter-Relationships
Diversity of opinion when the roles are played out
You have to recognize all the different sides of an issue
Senge says that any decision you have to make fit into one of six archetypes (see book).
We discussed Adam Greenfield's concepts in his work Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing.
Here are two of his websites: everyware and speedbird.
The topic of using of social network sites like FB to help or harm was addressed. We watched the video about the teenager using FB for unlawful purposes on cbsnews. Watch it here. We also learned about the use of Google Scholar to search academic documents. The term Digital Bombardment was brought up. Learning is all about establishing context. Higher Order Thinking (students) = Senge’s Inter-Relationships (admin). If an email takes up more than four sentences, it should really be a personal conversation. The site Second Life and the potential social ramifications was brought up (did you know that you can give talks and make money on Second Life?). Last but not least, we learned that Edward Tufte would be teaching us about presenting data.
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7-29-10
We discussed the digital divide (click to link to Edutopia's site about this) in classrooms.
Notes from Class
7-22-10
In our first class, the teacher mentioned Peter M. Senge's book The Fifth Discipline, as well as the idea of context. Here is an excerpt from Senge's book (pdf) that will give you the gist of what he is saying.
- Inter-Relationships
- Diversity of opinion when the roles are played out
- You have to recognize all the different sides of an issue
- Mental Models
- The way we believe things should work
- Based on your own experience
- What is a mental model? Click here to learn more about it
Senge says that any decision you have to make fit into one of six archetypes (see book).Here are two of his websites: everyware and speedbird.
The topic of using of social network sites like FB to help or harm was addressed. We watched the video about the teenager using FB for unlawful purposes on cbsnews. Watch it here. We also learned about the use of Google Scholar to search academic documents. The term Digital Bombardment was brought up. Learning is all about establishing context. Higher Order Thinking (students) = Senge’s Inter-Relationships (admin). If an email takes up more than four sentences, it should really be a personal conversation. The site Second Life and the potential social ramifications was brought up (did you know that you can give talks and make money on Second Life?). Last but not least, we learned that Edward Tufte would be teaching us about presenting data.
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7-29-10
- We discussed the digital divide (click to link to Edutopia's site about this) in classrooms.
- Jonathon Kozol: Equality in Education/Social Equality
- Management Aspect of Technology versus Improvement of Learning Through Technology
- Kids in transition versus teachers in transition re: the volume of information and accessibility of tech info
- Learning to teach students to sort through info and deem validity, then accumulate the data by “building context”
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7-31-10
To see these notes, click on the Student Choice Technology Presentations page.